Understanding Women’s Land Rights: Gender Discrimination in Ownership

Understanding Women’s Land Rights: Gender Discrimination in Ownership
Summary
Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- A Note from the Centre Director -- Acknowledgements -- 1: Editor's Introduction: Persisting Gender Discrimination in Land Rights -- 2: Land Rights and Land Access to Women in Andhra Pradesh -- 3: Engendering Tribal Land Rights for Gendering the Land: A Case Study Among Apatani and Nyishi Communities -- 4: Gender Issues in Landownership in Chhattisgarh: Existing Land Laws, Policies, and Practices -- 5: Women and Land Rights in the Context of Legal Propertied Equality in Goa -- 6: Women Empowerment Through Landownership Rights: Critical Assessment of Their Status in Gujarat -- 7: Gendering the Landownership Question in Jammu and Kashmir -- 8: Understanding Women and Land Rights in Jharkhand -- 9 Land, Land Rights, and Women in Maharashtra -- 10: Women's Access and Ownership of Land: A Case of Mizoram State in India -- 11: Gender and Land Relations in Nagaland: Emerging Issues -- 12: Persisting Inequalities: Gender and Land Rights in Rajasthan -- 13: Locating Gender in Land Rights Discourse of Sikkim -- 14: Women's Land Rights in the Context of Neo-liberal Tamil Nadu -- 15: Gender Justice and Law: A Gender-specific Study of Landownership in Uttarakhand -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index -- Land Reforms in India